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240 WHAT PAINTING IS
Second Coming, 72
Secret Figures of the Rosicrucians, 71
secretion as “secret ion,” 164
secunda materia, 80
secundines, 149
Sedziwój, Michal, 63
seed, 103–104, 181
stone, 27
see also semen
self-destruction, 143
self-reflexivity, 153, 161
semen, 70, 83, 102, 150, 163
serpent, 82, 113
Serrano, Andres, 70
Seurat, Georges, 48, 198
sexuality, 47
shamayim, 81
shellac, 123
shells,
egg, 57
fossil, 27
shit, see excrement
Shiva, 102, 163
sickness, 76
Sienna, 93, 106
see also Burnt Sienna;
Raw Sienna
silver, 27, 31, 151
as the moon, 65
chloride, 182
leaf, 222 n.17
symbol of, 222 n.17
tree, 143
sister, 53, 151
alchemical, 177–8
mystical, 152
size, 20, 169
Skj jerven, 39
skull, 141, 149
see also caput mortuum
sleepies, Elk, 150
slug, 68–69
smoke, 82
snake, see serpent
snow, 25–26
soap, see saponification
soda, 33, 35
symbol of, 65
sodium
carbonate, 35
hydroxide, 35
nitrate, 105
Sol, see sun
solids,
solid-liquid-gas, 25
supersolids, 25
solution, 140–1
solvent, 102
Son of Philosophy, 153, 165
Sophocles, 157, 159
soul, 25, 55–6, 73
as sulfur, 53
of elements, 82
of numbers, 44
see also Saturn, soul of
Southwest American rock art, 21
spagyrists, 202 n.7
sphinx, 157–9
spirit, 4, 31, 55–6, 82
animal spirits, 24
of numbers, 44
stone-forming, 26
woody, 28
spirituality, 75
spiritus
mundi, 79
sylvestris, 28
spittle, see saliva
sponges, 28
spouse, 82
stag,
antlers, 20
symbol of, 65
rotting, 70
tears, 28
see also elk
Stahl, Georg Ernst, 110
stand oil, see oil